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Tessa Souter: Beyond The Blue
by Dan Bilawsky
The mere mention of jazz-classical hybridization may draw scowls from jazz fans who've encountered more than their fare share of ill-conceived projects that trade in on this idea, but vocalist Tessa Souter avoids all the usual pitfalls. Beyond The Blue isn't about joining these worlds at the hip; it's about using the frameworks and melodies of ...
Ablaye Cissoko / Volker Goetze: Amanke Dionti
by Dan Bilawsky
Amanké Dionti is the most curiously beautiful record to hit shelves in the first half of 2012. Senegalese kora master Ablaye Cissoko and German trumpeter Volker Goetze have created a warm, engrossing, transcendent album that's glazed over with stark beauty and slight reverb, making it sound like a meeting of West African ideals and ECM-style production ...
Lynne Arriale: Solo
by Dave Sumner
Following up on her strong quartet album Convergence (Motema, 2011), pianist Lynne Arriale returns with a solo recording--a risky venture for any artist. In an ensemble setting, a musician has collaborators with whom to work and exchange ideas before the record button is punched, and more importantly, while the session is on the move. In ensemble ...
Samba Galactica
Album: The 11th Gate
By Dennis Rollins
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2011
Duration: 6:40
Gregory Porter: Be Good
by Dan Bilawsky
Debut albums often serve as fine introductions to the work of fledgling artists with potential for greater things, but that wasn't the case with Gregory Porter's Water (Motéma, 2010). Porter's debut, which was nominated for a Grammy Award, presented a vocal soul-jazz juggernaut that seemingly materialized out of thin air as a fully matured musical entity. ...
Elio Villafranca and Arturo Stable: Dos Y Mas
by Dan Bilawsky
Pianist Elio Villafranca and percussionist Arturo Stable have the world at their fingertips. They originally hail from Cuba, where they received classical training and soaked in the sounds of the people before coming Stateside. But they don't limit their vision to their mutual point of origin. Spain, the Middle East and Africa, along with the sounds ...
Jazz Accident
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2011
Track listing: 01. Al Largo (Denitto/Piccirillo/Musarò) - 8:30; 02. Meriggio Bill (Marco Piccirillo) - 10:59; 03. Ansia (Fabio Giachino) - 1:36; 04. Spavaldo (Paolo Musarò) - 9:58;
05. Afropuff (Fabio Giachino) - 9:53; 06. Domenica pomeriggio (Paolo Musarò) - 7:07; 07. Diminuirsi (Marco Piccirillo)- 8:11; 08. Jorgy (Paolo Musarò) - 7:52; 09. Road Runner (Marco Piccirillo) - 4:44.
Voice of My Beautiful Country
By Rene Marie
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2011
Track listing: 01. Strange Meadow Lark; 02. O Shenandoah; Imagination Medley: I. Imagination, II. Just My Imagination, III. White Rabbit, IV. Drift Away, V.John Henry, VI. Angelitos Negros;
Voice of My Beautiful Country Suite: I. America the Beautiful, II. Drum Battle, III. Piano Blues, IV. My Country ’Tis of Thee, V. Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing/Star-Spangled Banner,
VI. America the Beautiful – Reprise.
